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Jan 2025
16m 6s

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Aware...

TARA BRACH
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Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the changing flow of life. When we inhabit that openness, there's a natural arising of peace, wakefulness and tenderness.

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